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 * Hi Art and Social Action Members,**

Feel free to add announcements of events here! Start with the date to we know if the event is past!

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Want to learn more about Social Artistry or know someone who does? What it is and how to apply it? We (Erin Schneider & I) are offering a course through UW Continuing Studies on February 15-March 21, Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:30 p.m. We will do learning activities, talk about applications of social artistry principles to our projects & programs, and have guest speakers; we will also play with art!

For more information and registration, please see []

And for those of you who like to travel, please join us in Colquitt, GA, February 2-5, 2012 for the Building Creative Communities conference: [|http://www.bccconference.com]. There is pre and post conference training in Social Artistry: [].

Please pass this information along onto to folks who might be interested! Or let me know if you have any questions.

Happy 2012!

Marian

Please consider this invitation to the Midwest Regional Collaborative for Sustainability Education Conference this summer in Ashland, WI from June 27 to July 1. It's a great way to unwind, be creative, and learn new skills and experiences in sustainability education and community building. This year, we are offering a pre-conference workshop on June 25 in Social Artistry for Sustainability Leadership. Come join us!
 * June 25 & June 27-July 1, 2011**

Link to Midwest Regional Collaborative for Sustainability Education Conference []

Link to Social Artistry for Sustainability Leadership Workshop [|http://www.mrcse.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=115:2010-preconference-workshops&catid=67:designing-2010-summer-workshop&Itemid=118#social]

The Big Learning Event: Powerful Conversations for the Future Union South http://www.ohrd.wisc.edu
 * June 7-8, 2011**

Good morning, Everyone!
 * Thursday,March 31, 2011**

Welcome to a shameless shill for the Textile Collection's programming:

--Margaret Wertheim's lecture on her Hyperbolic Crocheted Reef Project is tomorrow (Thursday) at 5:30 in the Ebling auditorium at Microbial Sciences (NW of Henry Mall on central campus). More info, a slideshow, and a link to her terrific TED video are at our website's Events page: [|http://textilecollection.wisc.edu/events.html#2011harrislecture]

--One of my talented grad students has an exhibition on at the Kohler Art Library in the Chazen Museum building through May 31st entitled "By Women, For Women: Stories in Fabric." Details are also on our Events page at []

What a wonderful first gathering of our group! "Thanks for being there."

--Maya

P.S.: A technical caveat for those of us new to wiki-creation: I tried to embed the Wertheim TED video and the exhibition poster into this document, but the file size of the video choked the pipeline. The only way I could terminate the endless saving process was to back out and start all over--live and learn! So while it's remarkably simple to do cool, image-rich stuff in theory, it will shut you down indefinitely in practice unless you have a really fast Internet connection (I'm working from home and don't).